VP BASICS
VP Development by Age
Visual Cognitive Skills
VP Assessment
VP Intervention
100
Visual Motor Control, Visual Fields, and Visual Accuity are included in this category of visual skills.
What are foundational visual skills?
100
Visual Fixation, pattern recognition, form constancy, depth perception, discrimination are all present at this age in development.
What is Birth?
100
This skill involves alertness, selective attention, visual vigilance, divided or shared attention
What is Visual Attention?
100
OT evaluation of VP requires the therapist to consider the entire process of vision including these 2 specific functions.
What are visual reception and visual cognition?
100
An OT who uses mobiles with simple patterns hanging above an infants head is most likely addressing this area of VP.
What is Visual attention?
200
The OT who is most well known for her work in vision.
Who is Mary Warren?
200
Convergence, oculomotor systems are present at this developmental age
What is 2 months?
200
This skill has 2 parts... Object: Form constancy, visual closure, figure-ground Space: Position in space, depth perception, topographical orientation
What is Visual Discrimination?
200
This is considered the most effective way for an OT to collect evaluation data such as visual scanning, classifying visual information, interpretation of visual information, st0rage and retrieval of visual info.
What is clinical observation of VP skills?
200
An OT addressing this VP skill might have school age children play Simon Says.
What is Visual Discrimination: Space?
300
This is what we see with our eyes, extracting and organizing information from the environment
What is Reception?
300
The ability to group objects by shape & proximity at this developmental age.
What is 4 months?
300
This skill includes a child's ability to recall the features of a shape or object including spacing & sequence
What is Visual Memory?
300
This standardized test evaluates a child's VP skills with an elimination of motor skills so that the OT can look at perception only.
What is the motor free visual perception test?
300
When a child is working tasks such as locating school supplies on a shelf, he/she is most likely working to develop this VP skill.
What is Visual Discrimination: Object, (figure ground)?
400
Interpreting the meaning of what is seen and using it.
What is Cognition?
400
Form,Figure-ground, form constancy accommodation and, smooth pursuits are well developed in this age range.
What is 3-5 years old?
400
This skill facilitates a child's ability to smoothly coordinate the movement of the eyes with each other, the head, neck, hands and body.
What is visual motor integration?
400
This standardized evaluation tool is commonly used by OT's to evaluate a child's motor skills between the ages of 4-21 including fine motor, manual dexterity, bilateral coordination, balance, running, upper limb coordination, and strength.
What is the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT-2)?
400
Often times a school age child struggles with forming legible handwriting. An OT might have a child use paper with raised lines in order to address this VP skill.
What is Discrimination: spatial vision?
500
This is the brain’s ability to understand sensory input to determine size, shape, distance, and form of objects
What is visual perception?
500
Dramatic improvement in form, position, and spatial relationships occur during this age range.
What is 6-9 years of age?
500
The OTPF identifies VP areas for occupational therapists to consider in this category.
What is client factors, body functions, or specific mental functions (attention, memory, perception)?
500
This is one of the most commonly used standardized evaluation tools and includes 3 forms that collect data on visual motor integration, motor, and perception. There is a short form and a full form for this tooll.
What is the Beery Buktenica Test of Visual Motor Integration, VMI?
500
An OT who uses chunking and rehearsal is most likely addressing the development of this VP skill.
What is Visual Memory?
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